http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/protests_at_the_g20_summit.html
great pics thanks for the link
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They are good pics, esp. no’s 5, 16, 24, 27, 28, 29, 31.
11 & 12 are staged photographs. Scores of photographers waiting for a few pricks to throw something, the unfortunate element of what was otherwise (or at least should have been) an important protest.
i go through there every day to get to and from work. the media are totally making it into something it wasn’t. that morning there were hardly any boarded up shops, and the protesters never even appeared until 12 ish. the same picture of one window of the royal bank of scotland being smashed is being shown again and again to illustrate just how reckless and violent the protesters were. the fact that is was staged by the shitload of photographers taking pictures of it doesn’t seem to register with daily mail readers… anyway, we own the banks now so it was our fucking window to smash (if we wanted). one guy died, who was just trying to get home from work, penned in by the heavy handed poilce. fucking typical.
The guy who died appears in one of those photos.
I gave up street protesting a few years back. It’s grand when you’re a teen and very lefty but come realisation that protests generally don’t achieve much it’s kind of boring/pointless. And I can’t stand the scumbags who just break shit for the sake of it. Or the hippies who cherish confrontation with police so they can say they were “victims of police brutality”.
No thanks.
The best part of protests I took part in was when we started scaling buildings. Really dangerous but a great buzz and no one was hurt (that I heard of anyway).